Theaters Light Up Cedar Rapids With Star Power
A busy slate at Paramount and State includes Red Danube with Walter Pidgeon and Ethel Barrymore, The Bride Goes Wild with Van Johnson and June Allyson, 12 o Clock High with Gregory Peck, Montana with Errol Flynn, Stromboli with Ingrid Bergman, Tattooed Stranger, The Man on the Eiffel Tower, Mark of the Gorilla, The Doctor and the Girl with Glenn Ford and Janet Leigh, Tension, Trapped, Spring in Park Lane, Radar Secret Service, Lady of Burlesque, My Friend Irma, Bad Boy, Things To Come, The Babe Ruth Story, Fighting Fools, The Great Lover at Marion, Cobra Woman, and more planned through Tuesday.
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Charles Laughton
Franchot Tone
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Glenn Ford
Charles Coburn
Gloria de Haven
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Richard Basehart
Makers and Public Stick by Negro Film Series
Hollywood filmmakers lament Oscar snubs for 1949 racial films led by Pinky Intruder in the Dust and Lost Boundaries. Producers Kramer Werker Ferrer and Brown defend future work while No Way Out and The Window miss nominations. Critics and public praise Benign profits despite awards silence.
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Another Movie Maker Deserts Hollywood
Producer Carl Krueger predicts more films shot entirely outside Hollywood by year end. He notes The Golden Gloves Story was filmed in Chicago in eight and a half weeks without sets using police stations offices and hotels. He cites a dozen productions announced in real locales this year and credits a Hollywood crew for expertise.
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Carl Krueger
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Glamorous Francis Gifford in early Hopalong Cassidy tales
Francis Gifford emerged as an early Hopalong Cassidy heroine earning her first successes in sagebrush saga adventures. Her roles helped shape the western film serials and popular frontier characterizations of the era.
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Francis Gifford
P.T.A Western Program At State Saturday
A PTA sponsored movie program will be shown at the State theater Saturday morning. Titles include Grand Canyon Trail featuring Roy Rogers in technicolor and Thunder Mountain with Tim Holt. Shows start 10 o clock, doors open 9 30. Special arrangements will speed ticket sales per Manager Robert R Kennedy.
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Tim Holt
Robert R. Kenney
Montgomery Clift Pursues Yacht Hobby In Small Boats
Actor Montgomery Clift is noted as an expert yachtsman with a focus on small boats as his sea-faring hobby.
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Roscoe Ates Drops Stutter in New Films
Hollywood AP reports Roscoe Ates the character actor known for a stutter in 150 films returns in Hills of Oklahoma and If I can't be funny without the stutter then I'm not the comedian I like to think I am. He will speak plainly in new pictures.
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Judith Anderson Beats Odds After Arriving in U S
Judith Anderson, noted Broadway star who later appears in Hal Wallis film The Furies, was initially turned down by Hollywood after she first arrived in the United States from Australia.
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Australia
John Wayne faces multi studio tug over film contract
Hollywood report details John Wayne’s 1940 Hughes deal forcing one film a year for five years. Only two produced. His contract now spans four studios with Jet Pilot and multiple others in play. Wayne aims to produce The Alamo and Torero while planning a Mexico shoot after Jet Pilot.
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Argosy
Sneak Preview at Paramount Thursday Night
A second sneak preview will be offered at the Paramount on Thursday night in addition to the film Montana.
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Paramount
Montana
Theater Times for Sunday Local Theaters Scheduled
The Gazette lists today and tomorrow schedules for Paramount Iowa State Town Palace Times Strand and Marion listings. Featured films include The Inspector General The Red Danube The Bride Goes Wild Trapped Spring in Park Lane Radar Secret Service Lady of Burlesque My Friend Irma Bad Boy Things To Come The Man Who Could Work Miracles The Babe Ruth Story Fighting Fools The Great Lover Cobra Woman and The Great Lover with showings across multiple theaters.
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Irma
Marie Wilson
John Lund
Diana Lynn
Don DeFore
Audie Murphy
the Palace
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Times
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William Bendix
Leo Gorcey
Huntz Hall
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Bowery Boys
Strand
Inspector General
Red Danube
Iowa
Eiffel Tower
Park Lane
Secret Service
Palace
Marion
Lover
Cobra
Theaters Aid Brotherhood Week Nationwide Drive
Today marks the first day of Brotherhood Week as theaters across the nation join the movement. Sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the campaign invites contributions at the Iowa theater.
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National Conference of Christians and Jews
Iowa
Alan Ladd Often Wields a Gun in His Films
The veteran star Alan Ladd is noted for using a gun in every film he headlines except his early movie And Now Tomorrow. This pattern highlights his on screen persona as a cautious, authoritative figure in postwar cinema.
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Alan Ladd
Press Agents Again Discover Parrots
Hollywood reports Universal- International plans to import parrots in Central America to squawk Oh, Francis in theater lobbies of 100 cities. The gimmick echoes a 1940s effort for Mae West films when parrots shouted It Ain't No Sin and were recalled after the title change.
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